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Why Global Warming is not bad

Posted on Oct 7th, 2006 by Dolf : Off to the Nondual... Dolf

Al Gore (once the next president of the USA) visited Holland to promote his documentary about the disasters of Global Warming.
In some past, I worried about Global Warming, the greenhouse effect (or rather, the effects of the greenhouse effect, as I was taught in my physics classes) and nuclear energy as well. I suppose that was very Green of me...
Nowadays I question myself from two angles: the naturalistic one and the non-dual one.

From a naturalistic point of view: does it really matter that Global Warming is about to destroy a significant part of life on earth? Ever since the earth got created 4.5 billion years ago, nature has evolved through all kinds of stages and learned to adapt itself after various disasters. The dinosaurs were a nice concept (bigger is better), but they were stupid enough to become extinct after a meteorite hit the earth (no matter what Steven Spielberg leads us to believe). After that, new life forms turned up, including us humans, who are arrogant enough to believe to be the cutting edge of creation and hence allowed to dominate the rest of creation. So if global warming is going to destroy us: what's lost? New life forms will pop up, evolution will start all over again and nature will take its way.

From a non-dual point of view: I am bout to parrot what Ken Wilber wrote after the events of 9/11. Did anything happen anyhow? Say we all get destroyed in a flood (which is likely in my place in the world, given that I live in The Netherlands below sea-level). Or in a nuclear war (which is likely elsewhere in the world, given the stupid fucks of leaders that are out there). As we are all just creative appearances of Spirit (being the ground of all life forms), nothing gets lost when all humanity is destroyed. Spirit in its infinite creativity will find another way to express itself in an appropriate way. Spirit does not get destroyed, as you cannot destroy the foundation of What Is. Spirit as the source of everything will just continue its "game" (as Ramakrishna called it) without bothering about what has disappeared in some fraction of its existence.

So Global Warming is not bad. It is only bad from the egocentric perspective of humans that think they are worth to stay where they are and as they are.

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Doug : Back Yard Artist
about 1 year later
Doug said

 

I imagine this is a pretty controversial statement, however I agree. Life is something beyond the biological and if it isn't then where did it begin?

Doesn't matter if you believe in Creationism or Darwinism, the fact is biological life sprang from non-biological “life”, something came first. I personally view life, love, art as being different aspects of the same thing and that thing, spirit, force, God, whatever, hasn't stopped creating. I just don't get wigged out by negative things like war, murder, animals that feed on other animals. There is purpose, meaning in everything even the dark underbelly of life, the worms that churn the soil beneath our feet. And in that churning new life is created. Dylan Thomas expressed it better then I

“though they sink through the sea

they shall rise again

though lovers be lost

love shall not”
Humans are not the end all be all.

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